Tinder is coming under fire from Belgian politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Marc Tarabella for what he says is a breach of EU data privacy rules, according to the BBC.

Tarabella is calling for an investigation and says that Tinder doesn't provide enough info up-front about how a user's data is likely to be used, and that it grants the company permission to store a whole raft of private information indefinitely. In order to access the service as things stand now, you need to link it to your Facebook account and the associated data.

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"Once you subscribe, the company can do whatever it wants with your data. It can show them, distribute them to whomever or even modify them," Tarabella said, according to the BBC.

Tinder has not responded to a request for comment from WIRED at the time of writing.

The MEP's claims come at a bad time – Europe is already overhauling data protection laws, making the landscape more complicated, and potentially more expensive, for companies that find themselves on the wrong side of those changes.

Tinder provided the following statement to WIRED: "Our users' privacy is important to us and we routinely update our terms of use, privacy policies and practices to address evolving privacy laws in the nearly 200 countries where Tinder operates. We take Mr. Tarabella’s comments seriously, and we will review them as part of a process that is already underway at Tinder to best address the needs of our users and ensure we are compliant with applicable privacy laws."